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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Automation is key to digital transformation

  Automation will enable IT teams to focus on driving transformative projects instead of supporting tasks that can be automated, says UiPath CEO Daniel Dines

• July 12, 2021 12 Jul'21

  NSW department of education hit by cyber attack

  Australia’s New South Wales department of education takes some systems offline as a precautionary measure in response to a cyber attack last Thursday

• July 02, 2021 02 Jul'21

  Cricket Australia’s replatforming of online services paid off during pandemic

  Cricket Australia was able to keep digital services up and running during a period of unprecedented customer demand

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  SAP claims ‘huge momentum’ for Rise in APAC

  A top SAP executive claims the region is leading the way in the ‘Rise with SAP’ cloud transformation programme which has been bolstered with modular cloud enterprise resource planning offerings

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Putting cloud repatriation into perspective

  Moving public cloud workloads back on-premise is among the decisions that organisations have to make as they straddle between public and private cloud environments

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Sizing up Australia’s vibrant cloud market

  Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  DataStax eyes growth in APAC

  DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Inside Macquarie Bank’s data transformation journey

  Australia’s Macquarie Bank has moved all its data and analytics to the cloud and is applying machine learning to detect fraud and improve customer experience

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  UnitingCare Queensland restores IT systems after cyber attack

  Australian healthcare service provider has restored key corporate systems and integrations between applications following a cyber attack earlier this year

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Databricks taps groundswell in lakehouse adoption

  Databricks has been expanding its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region amid growing interest among traditional enterprises and digital native companies in the data lakehouse architecture

• June 15, 2021 15 Jun'21

  How healthcare organisations are tapping data analytics

  Healthcare providers are harnessing data analytics to improve clinical and operational outcomes even as they continue to face challenges in data aggregation and data protection

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  HammondCare takes procurement to the cloud

  The Australian health and aged care provider migrated its procurement and invoicing systems to the cloud in just six months to improve efficiency and security

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  FBI planned a sting against An0m cryptophone users over drinks with Australian investigators

  Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with the idea over drinks: build a cryptophone network with a built-in backdoor and sell it to crime gangs around the world

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  Australia names ‘strategic’ datacentre operators

  Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency certifies Macquarie Telecom, Canberra Data Centres and Australian Data Centres as strategic operators for hosting government data

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  How Ubisoft is embracing the cloud

  Game developer Ubisoft has been tapping cloud computing to overcome the constraints of game development and create gaming experiences that live on for years to come

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  Australian organisations face heightened cyber attacks

  Nearly three in four Australian organisations experienced cyber attacks that largely resulted from a growing remote workforce in 2020

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  FBI arrests distributors accused of selling An0m encrypted phones to crime groups

  Working with overseas law enforcement, the FBI has arrested eight people and named a further 13 accused of distributing An0m phones to organised crime groups

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Oracle debuts low-cost Arm compute instances

  Oracle is offering Arm instances powered by Ampere’s Altra processors at one cent per core hour as enterprises look to deploy more Arm-based workloads

• June 01, 2021 01 Jun'21

  Why a cloud operating model matters

  Successful cloud adoption requires organisations to go beyond tools and techniques to map out a cloud operating model, says consulting firm Contino

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Veeam bolsters portfolio to cover emerging workloads

  The groundswell in containerisation and open-source hypervisors is behind Veeam’s recent move to enable backup and recovery of emerging workloads

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Melbourne taps AI to ease traffic congestion

  University of Melbourne has teamed up with public and private sector organisations to build an AI application that can predict traffic congestion up to three hours ahead

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Why the security stack needs to move to the edge

  Akamai’s chief technology officer Robert Blumofe makes the case for a decentralised security model to address cyber threats that are emanating from the network edge

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Australian budget lends support to digital economy

  Australia’s A$1.2bn Digital Economy Strategy ticks most of the right boxes, but some industry experts say areas such as broadband infrastructure and artificial intelligence are still underfunded

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  IBM doubles down on AI and hybrid cloud

  IBM is beefing up its core technology capabilities in artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud to speed up application modernisation and improve AI adoption

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Ransomware, supply chain attacks show no sign of abating

  Security experts at Black Hat Asia 2021 discuss the state of ransomware and supply chain attacks, two of the most common attack vectors that offer high returns for threat actors

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Executive interview: Juergen Mueller on SAP’s tech strategy

  SAP CTO Juergen Mueller offers a glimpse into the company’s thinking around delivering business applications as microservices, among other areas and updates in its technology strategy

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  How Transport for NSW is tapping machine learning

  Transport agency in New South Wales taps machine learning to restore public confidence in the state’s transportation network amid the pandemic

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

  Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Red Hat eyes edge computing workloads

  Open-source juggernaut has enriched its enterprise Linux and OpenShift offerings to support edge computing workloads better

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  UnitingCare Queensland hit by cyber attack

  Healthcare service provider UnitingCare Queensland was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack that crippled several IT systems

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Australia and India team up on critical technology

  The first three projects under a joint research grant programme will focus on developing ethical and regulatory frameworks for quantum computing, AI and 5G

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Informatica streamlines APAC operations amid growing cloud business

  Informatica has consolidated its operations in four key Asia-Pacific markets in a move that will enable it to better meet the demand for cloud-based data management software

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC

  The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey

• April 11, 2021 11 Apr'21

  Executive interview: Unleashing blockchain’s potential

  Labrys founder and CEO Lachlan Feeney offers his observations about blockchain adoption in Australia, and what his firm is doing to help organisations unleash the full potential of the technology

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  VMware to ease hybrid cloud deployments

  VMware is combining VMware Cloud Foundation and its Tanzu portfolio into a single software stack to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployment and management

• April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21

  How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

  Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Australian firms slow to wean off the mainframe

  Australian companies tend to have a wait-and-see mindset that is slowing down mainframe modernisation initiatives, says Accenture expert

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Bitfrost subsea cable to boost APAC connectivity

  A subsea cable system linking Southeast Asia and North America will be built by 2024 to meet the growing demand for bandwidth in the Asia-Pacific region

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Executive interview: Tearing down data silos

  Alteryx’s senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific addresses some misconceptions about data analytics and what the company is doing to stake a bigger claim on the market

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  Cyber attack takes Channel Nine off-air

  The Australian broadcaster was hit by an alleged ransomware attack that disrupted broadcasting operations in its Sydney studio

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency

  Australia’s biggest loyalty platform takes 12-month journey towards the cloud, slashing time to deliver customised offers to less than 45 minutes, among other outcomes

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Sime Darby ups ante in service management

  Sime Darby Industrial’s inService Suite has returned more than 100,000 hours to the company in a digitisation initiative that has improved efficiency and customer engagement

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: SIA taps blockchain for loyalty app

  Singapore Airlines, winner of the transportation category in this year’s CW Innovation Awards APAC, expands its blockchain-based digital wallet into a broader digital lifestyle platform

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Northwest Australia to get digital boost

  A $1.5bn datacentre and connectivity project that links Perth and Darwin to the rest of the Asia-Pacific region is set to boost digital investments in northwest Australia

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge

  Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Eastern Health reports ‘cyber incident’, takes systems offline

  Australian healthcare provider Eastern Health takes IT systems offline as a precaution while it looks into a cyber incident

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  NEXTDC debuts carbon-neutral colocation service

  Australian datacentre operator will buy carbon offsets to help organisations reduce their carbon footprint through a new colocation service

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Fighting fake Covid-19 vaccines with blockchain

  A blockchain-based system developed by Singapore-based Zuellig Pharma can help governments and healthcare providers weed out fake vaccines and manage vaccine distribution and administration

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  APAC cloud spending up by over 38% in 2020

  Public cloud infrastructure services made up the lion’s share of cloud spending last year as APAC organisations strive to modernise their IT infrastructure amid the pandemic, study finds